The number of guest OSes that can be hosted is limited by CPU power, RAM, hard disks and network bandwidth.
Fixing Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
After installation of the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, you might encounter the home page, reports and policy page cannot be viewed. “The website declined to show this webpage”.
Creating a Linux Virtual Machine Part Deux
The VMTools required installation of kernel headers for Fedora Core 9, after a bit of head-scratching, I managed to find it. This is done by Googling on compiling kernels and kernel headers.
Network configuration for Solaris
In Windows, you can change IP address, all in one place. For Solaris, it is slightly different.
Changing monitor resolution for Solaris
What is the difference between the Linux distributions?
According to Wiki, there are over 300 different Linux distributions. Some of the more well known are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, FreeBSD etc.
Fedora 9 and NFS
I am using Fedora 9 as a client to connect to a Solaris 9 machine. Strangely it kept failing and after some Google time, all is revealed. NFS is logged as a bug in Bugzilla.
What is the equivalent command for ??? in Linux?
How to find a Solaris command for ??? in Linux? or vice versa? or AIX, BSD? Check out the Rosetta Stone for Unix.
Disk to disk cloning a server
Disk to disk cloning a server is a really old way of cloning. Insert a new disk of similar size, boot an independent OS eg Live CD, Ubuntu or Knoppix to clone from old to the new disk.
6 degrees of separation
Recently I attended a wedding dinner. This was held for my brother-in-law at the Paramount Hotel. There was this guy in the crowd that looks vaguely familiar. He had the same strange feeling. So we went “Haven’t seen you somewhere…